Don’t confuse your core audience with the public at large. If you’re happy speaking to a small cadre of folks, by all means make an album every two or three years which will speak to your tiny audience. But if you want to be ubiquitous, if you want to be rich, if you want to […]

YOU WANT A HIT It anchors your career. There are hitmakers and everybody else. A hit just means something ubiquitous that everybody listens to, chart numbers are unnecessary. Hits can come in a flash via inspiration, but oftentimes they require a huge amount of effort and craft. Are you repeating the verses? Is the chorus […]

“U2’s Manager Responds to Backlash: If You Don’t Like This Gift, Delete It” Speaking of tone deaf scumbags… The spam problem is all over the news, I have to delete hundreds of messages a day, but when U2 does it it’s legitimate. Ugh. It’s almost like they don’t live in the real world, like they […]

It was incomprehensible. Furthermore, if you weren’t there you probably didn’t know it happened, despite the act selling out two dates and nearly a third, on a Thursday, a school night. And that was who were there. Students. Girls. Wanna get laid? Go to a 1D show. You won’t see odds this good at the […]